TEHRAN (IBNA) -- Persian translation of ‘Who Rules The World?’ (2014), a book by American ‎philosopher, linguist, social critic, and political activist Noam Chomsky which surveys ‎the current scene and despairs of the world is available in Persian now.
A New York Times bestseller by an author of relentless logic has been translated into Persian by Mohammad Hariri Akbari. Ghalan Yord Publishing has released ‘Who Rules The World?’ in 238 pages and 250 copies.
Here, the world’s leading intellectual offers a probing examination of the waning American Century, the nature of U.S. policies post-9/11, and the perils of valuing power above democracy and human rights
In an incisive, thorough analysis of the current international situation, Noam Chomsky argues that the United States, through its military-first policies and its unstinting devotion to maintaining a world-spanning empire, is both risking catastrophe and wrecking the global commons. Drawing on a wide range of examples, from the expanding drone assassination program to the threat of nuclear warfare, as well as the flashpoints of Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and Israel/Palestine, he offers unexpected and nuanced insights into the workings of imperial power on our increasingly chaotic planet.
In the process, Chomsky provides a brilliant anatomy of just how U.S. elites have grown ever more insulated from any democratic constraints on their power. While the broader population is lulled into apathy—diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable—the corporations and the rich have increasingly been allowed to do as they please.
Fierce, unsparing, and meticulously documented, ‘Who Rules the World?’ delivers the indispensable understanding of the central conflicts and dangers of our time that we have come to expect from Chomsky.
The New York Review of Books comments on this work: “Chomsky’s book is . . . a polemic designed to awaken Americans from complacency. America, in his view, must be reined in, and he makes the case with verve. . . . We should understand it as a plea to end American hypocrisy, to introduce a more consistently principled dimension to American relations with the world, and, instead of assuming American benevolence, to scrutinize critically how the U.S. government actually exercises its still-unmatched power.”